A trading competition for Ethos Trade's beta markets — nearly 35M XP up for grabs as Season 2 winds down and XP disappears forever.
How do you short someone's reputation? Ethos Trade launches in beta: open long/short markets on any X account, GitHub repo, or YouTube channel.
A new daily bounty experiment: every day, everyone reviews the same account. Earn 500 XP and help Ethos build better signal for others.
Users with an Ethos score over 1400 can now sign up without an invite. Search your score, prove ownership, secure your spot — without asking anyone.
EIP-15 taps the social signal Ethos was barely using — X, Farcaster, GitHub — to give users with established profiles more score from existing credibility graphs.
Legion integrates Ethos twice over: VP toward guaranteed sale allocations for 1200+ users, and Ethos Scores on every project page so you can vet founders before you invest.
EIP-14 extends review cycle detection to catch triangles and rectangles, not just reciprocal reviews. Some scores drop — and the ones that remain mean more.
Ethos is experimenting with AI summaries that distill hundreds of reviews into an at-a-glance picture of who someone really is.
Slash #411 pushed the mechanism further than ever — and exposed real flaws. The retro: a CEO score ceiling, anonymous voting, abstain options, and mob prevention.
One day after Human Verification launched, Cambria is already using it — priority access and allocation for real humans, credible humans.
Ethos Human Verification is live: prove you're human without KYC, biometrics, or government ID. Validator bonds, on-chain attestations, and badges across X.
Tunnl officially integrates Ethos scores. Brands can now gate influencer campaigns by credibility — ensuring creators are reputable and aligned with brand standards.
Agents can pay, register, and transact onchain — but can you trust them? Why reputation is the missing primitive, and how Ethos fills the gap x402 and ERC-8004 leave open.
599 registered, 108 shipped, 4 winners. The first Ethos Vibeathon proved anyone can build with onchain reputation — here's what the community created.
Season 2 is live. Three ways to earn XP, stacking multipliers, Schelling Point slash voting — and XP that's spent, not just earned. Skin in the game required.
Blackhaven (coming to MegaETH) gives Early Access boosts by Ethos score: 10% at 1600+, 12.5% at 1800+, 15% at 2000+. Works even if you've never signed up for Ethos.
Build the future of reputation infrastructure and win from a $40,000 prize pool. The Ethos Vibeathon is open for registration.
The Decision is live: burn 50% XP for an NFT or stake 50% in Validators. Do nothing and lose 20% XP. You have 21 days to choose.
Moca Network integrates Ethos using zkProof technology. Prove your reputation without revealing your score—privacy and credibility combined.
Solstice now integrates Ethos reputation scores. Your credibility is portable across the expanding web3 ecosystem.
The first-ever prediction market for an Ethos outcome: will Monad get successfully slashed by Dec 9? Trade it now on Myriad Markets.
The new Ethos Everywhere wallet lets you fund once and never sign a transaction again — plus write reviews from any website, starting with X.
Think Ethos is easily gamed? Here are 20 mechanisms we use to prevent gaming—from invitation bonds and score-weighted reviews to slashing risks and bounties for catching abusers.
EIP-12 and EIP-13 are now live. EIP-12 introduces influence handicaps, while EIP-13 recalibrates vouching to penalize low-stakes vouch farms. Scores are recalculating.
EIP-13 recalibrates vouching to stop 0.01 ETH vouch spam attacks. Quality over quantity—meaningful vouches from reputable users now matter more.
MegaETH will use Ethos scores in their token distribution. Higher credibility scores may improve your eligibility—reputation is now portable value in Web3.
EIP-11 introduces Wallet Quality Score—analyzing on-chain history to better identify sybils and reward long-term participants.
Veil.Cash integrates Ethos for privacy-preserving reputation in DeFi. Prove credibility without revealing identity.
EIP-6 lets you mark AI-generated or spam reviews on your profile. Flag generic positive reviews that don't actually describe you and help keep Ethos spam-free.
Install Ethos as a PWA on your phone. Get real-time notifications for score changes, respond to slashes quickly, and vote on EIPs from anywhere.
Ethos introduces the "Known" credibility level (1400-1600) to better differentiate genuine newcomers from spam accounts. Neutral users now have 0 voting impact as the platform scales its anti-spam measures.
EIP-6 and EIP-7 are live. EIP-6 penalizes positive reviews downvoted by their recipients; EIP-7 neutralizes spam reviews. Review sloppers and R4R farmers beware.
Ethos launches Community EIPs, giving users the power to propose changes to how credibility scores are calculated. Anyone with an active Ethos profile can now submit and vote on governance proposals.
The Ethos Chrome extension displays credibility scores on X profiles, helping you filter out AI-generated slop and bots. See who's real and who's noise—instantly.
EIP-5 introduces reputation boosts for users with established social graphs, allowing up to +400 credibility based on existing social presence. This helps normalize scores for well-known figures.
Introducing Ethos Listings—cast bullish or bearish votes on projects using your reputation-weighted voting power. Signal what you believe in, backed by credibility.
After 113 days on Base, here's our honest assessment on Ethos' three goals: identifying bad actors, separating signal from noise, and recognizing reputable people.
Ethos pre-season ends today. Validator NFTs sent to top contributors. Season 1 coming soon with weekly XP for high-quality reputation signals.
You can now connect your Discord to your Ethos profile. Unlock gated access, onchain attestations, and new ways to build reputation across Web3.
Ethos scores now live on OpenSea via our Chrome extension. See who’s credible, who’s not, and make smarter NFT moves with onchain reputation data.
EIP-2 adds community moderation to reviews: upvotes boost impact, downvotes reduce it, making scores more accurate and aligned with sentiment.
Today we're launching Leaderboard V2, introducing categories. Artists, communities, VCs, publications +more
EIP-1 makes adjustments to the mutual vouching bonus as well as the increasing the impact of ELO score difference calculations on reviews
For all future credibility score changes, we will be weighing the community's input through Snapshot
Now ANYONE with an Ethos profile can create their own reputation market
Social slashing is now live on Ethos. Active users may now slash Ethos users or X accounts. There's a catch - you have to risk your own credibility score
(3,3) + cooperation are critical to the success of Ethos & crypto's social landscape ...but it's largely misunderstood & misdescribed. What happens when it gets abused on Ethos?
How does Ethos resist mob culture? One of the most broken things in web2 reviewing & scoring systems is they are victim to mob reviews & censorship. Here's how Ethos solves that
Why is it so hard to get an Ethos invite? It's by design, and eventually we'll open things up more
Who are the Ethos founders? What is their background and why are the right guys to build Ethos?
InfoFi for Reputation? Ethos.markets launches today with the first ever Reputation Market
Ethos has launched on Base mainnet on January 22, 2025- Everything you need to know about the launch is in here
Ethos is ending the testnet period and moving to mainnet in January
The Ethos AI Agents securing credibility & reputation in web3
Who do you trust in crypto? Who should be avoided? Ethos brings accountability to crypto, onchain.
When you decide a place to go eat, do you look at their financials? Or do you see what people say about them? Why our trust signals in crypto are missing today...
We are LIVE on Base Testnet! Read more about how to get setup with Ethos, how to help us test, and what to do if you didn't make the waitlist
Ethos is coming to Base Testnet on September 20th. Join us in creating a more reliable blockchain ecosystem.
Today CryptoTwitter is “The Arena” for crypto- the clear leader of how people publicly engage in crypto. It is the primary System of Engagement, and Ethos integreates directly into it.
Reviewing, vouching, slashing and inviting make up the four major mechanics that help us observe, instrument and measure onchain credibility.
Honest, authentic reviews from real people. Ethos is bringing this onchain.
We’re announcing today the completion of our pre-seed round for Ethos Network of $1.75m, led by... nobody. Seriously.
Ethos is working on a credibility score for Web3. What goes into that? Where do you start? Who determines the algorithm? And how does that change over time?
Friend.tech showed us that personal reputation could be instrumented and captured on the blockchain.. what did we learn from that and how might we adapt in building Ethos?
Spoofed credibility is one of the easiest thing you can purchase in Web3 today. 11 cents buys the perception of incredible reach on Twitter. So what does $20 and an intern get you?
Determining the credibility of crypto teams and projects is incredibly challenging in a pseudonymous world. What signals do we have today? Are they the right ones?
Reputation and credibility are at the forefront of every interaction we have in modern society. It’s how we filter signal from noise - what does someone else say about a product, a service, a business?
Can we push the crypto space forward by making reputation and credibility more valuable? This thesis shares ideas on how we can adopt existing crypto mechanisms to build a safer environment onchain.
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